Topic
Sodomite
8 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
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- Genesis 38:21ISBE
Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.
- Genesis 38:22ISBE
And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
- Deuteronomy 23:17ISBE
¶ There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
- 1 Kings 14:24ISBE
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
- 1 Kings 15:12ISBE
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- 1 Kings 22:46ISBE
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
- 2 Kings 23:7ISBE
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
- Hosea 4:14ISBE
I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 9 references
sod'-om-it (qadhesh, feminine qedheshah): Qadhesh denotes properly a male temple prostitute, one of the class attached to certain sanctuaries of heathen deities, and "consecrated" to the impure rites of their worship. Such gross and degrading practices in Yahweh's land could only be construed as a flagrant outrage; and any association of these with His pure worship was abhorrent (De 23:17 f): The presence of Sodomites is noted as a mark of degeneracy in Rehoboam's time (1Ki 14:24). Asa endeavored to get rid of them (1Ki 15:12), and Jehoshaphat routed them out (1Ki 22:46). Subsequent corruptions opened the way for their return, and Josiah had to break down their houses which were actually "in the house of the Lord" (2Ki 23:7). The feminine qedheshah is translated "prostitute" in Ge 38:21,22; Ho 4:14; in De 23:17 "prostitute" (the King James Version margin "sodomitess," the Revised Version margin transliterates). The English word is, of course, derived from Sodom, the inhabitants of which were in evil repute for unnatural vice.
W. Ewing
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.